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Twitch snags chief marketing officer Doug Scott from Zynga

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 21, 2019
2 min

Twitch is announcing today that former Zynga chief marketing officer Doug Scott is joining Amazon’s livestreaming service as its new CMO. He will be...

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The green gooey boy is here for some Tetris 99.

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Tetris 99 gets Luigi’s Mansion 3 event starring Gooigi

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 21, 2019
2 min

Nintendo is launching Luigi’s Mansion 3 on October 31 for Halloween. But the publisher is going to give you a taste of the spooky...

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Left to right: Kim Bhatha of Zynga, Robert Garfinkle of Big Huge Games, and Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat.

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Adjust panel: The state of user acquisition for mobile games

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 20, 2019
12 min

Acquiring users for mobile games isn’t the sexiest part of the game industry. But it’s a critical one. And so I was happy to...

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Mario Kart Tour is just as popular as you would've thought.

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Why have hyper-casual games replaced gacha in Japan?

Posted byby GamesBeat
October 20, 2019
4 min

In 1999 — some 20 years before the birth of Apple’s App Store when mobile phone owners in the West could only play Snake...

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Keith Boesky was the former president of Eidos.

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Former Eidos president and frequent game startup adviser Keith Boesky passes away

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
October 19, 2019
4 min

Keith Boesky, former president of Tomb Raider publisher Eidos and a frequent adviser to game companies at Boesky & Co., has died from cancer,...

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The RetroBeat: Sonic & Knuckles turned a problem into success 25 years ago

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 18, 2019
2 min

Sonic & Knuckles is what happens when you make the best out of a bad situation. The Sega Genesis 2D platformer is celebrating its...

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NPD: Nintendo Switch outsold Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in September

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
October 17, 2019
1 min

As Microsoft and Sony slowly sunset their current-generation consoles, Nintendo is maintaining its momentum. The Nintendo Switch was the top-seller in September, according to...

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Nintendo Switch sales in North America pass 15 million

Posted byby Mike Minotti
October 17, 2019
1 min

Nintendo announced today that sales of the Switch console have surpassed 15 million in North America. This includes the original console and the newer, portable-only...